Ruptly GmbH is a Russian state-owned[2][3] video news agency specializing in video-on-demand, based in Berlin, Germany.

[22] Ruptly joined the German Commercial Register as a Berlin-based GmbH in July 2012,[23] before officially launching operations on 4 April 2013.

[2][28] In October 2017, a Ruptly-produced viral video about an American restaurant creating a special burger to celebrate Vladimir Putin's birthday turned out to be fabricated.

[32] In April 2019, Ruptly provided exclusive video coverage of Julian Assange being forcibly removed from the Embassy of Ecuador, London.

Ruptly obtained the footage by videoing the embassy using a crew of five working in shifts 24 hours per day for the week leading up to Assange's arrest.

[34][35][36][37] In August 2020, The New York Times reported that a Ruptly video of Black Lives Matter protesters apparently burning a bible in Portland, Oregon, edited in a misleading way, "went viral" after it being shared with an inaccurate caption on social media by far-right personality Ian Miles Cheong and then conservative politicians.

[43] During the economic crisis in December 2008, the Russian government included ANO TV-Novosti on its list of core organizations of strategic importance of Russia.

[18][48] According to the Alliance For Securing Democracy and UK journalist Paul Mason, Redfish is aimed at the political left and African Americans.

In 2019, Ruptly was criticised by browser extension NewsGuard:Although Ruptly has published straightforward content from around the world, its videos and headlines of topics of interest to the Kremlin have repeatedly featured false or misleading statements from Russian government officials, including denials that Syria was behind chemical weapons attacks of its own citizens.

Although the footage accurately quotes Russian authorities, NewsGuard has determined that Ruptly, as a government run outlet publishing the government’s false claims, has repeatedly published false content and does not gather and present information responsibly.Ruptly responded that "As a video news agency providing content to journalists, our role is to present raw footage that our clients ensure their journalists edit and use responsibly."

[47] Statistics from Tubular Labs show Ruptly was the most-watched news agency on YouTube in 2020, topping Yonhap, Associated Press, Reuters, Xinhua and AFP.